Airbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their Chores
Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse
Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.
Read moreJapan’s Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected
Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]
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CD Projekt boss pays tribute to BioWare for helping bring The Witcher to life 20 years ago: ‘BioWare has been a massive part of CDPR history’
BioWare let CD Projekt use the Aurora Engine for its breakout RPG, and then helped them show it off at E3.
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Modern Warfare 4 players declare ‘broken’ on DMZ perk that lets you self-revive after full death
Some hate that you can't know an enemy's truly dead in DMZ.
Read moreUSN-8890-2: libsoup vulnerabilities
USN-8890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libsoup. This update provides the corresponding updates for libsoup3 on Ubuntu 26.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled...
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Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3
Tesla’s once-booming energy storage business also shrunk in Q3 2026.
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Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 18: Signed division
As promised, the last one (for now?), and this one blew my mind the first time I saw it: var_v0 = sp4014; if ((s32) sp4014 <...
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Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company...
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Amodei says Anthropic’s safety delay may have cost it an AI lead
Anthropic first released Mythos-class models in February 2026, but CEO Dario Amodei said it delayed broader access until June to The post Amodei says Anthropic’s safety...
Read moreLinus Torvalds Eliminates Unsafe __get_user() & __put_user() Functions In Linux 7.4
Linus Torvalds continues with his recent uptick in kernel patches himself, assisted in part by AI with Claude Code. Merged today was removing the historical and...
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‘It’s the President’s Fault’: The White House Blame Game Starts Early Ahead of the Midterms
As the White House contemplates losing Congress, there has been an unusually early effort to find a Republican scapegoat.
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